Can we foil human hubris and put a stop to relentless growth? How to resist urban alienation and preserve affective ties? The five films selected for this program, all completed between 2022 and 2023 as part of the Atelier 105 residency program, engage with these concerns by proposing a range of perspectives and strategies – from a contemplative, dystopian or even post-apocalyptic stance, to flânerie and the creation of informal networks situated on the fringes of urban centers and based on curiosity and play.

Louise Bourque's œuvre is an irreducible totality in which personal and family secrets hide behind layers of photochemical emulsion. It offers an obsessive world that is both visceral and oneiric, dotted with repetitive motifs. Death and birth, fertility and decomposition. These oppositions run through Bourque's work and find an echo in her practice; she creates out of images that are "dead" (unused, discarded, forgotten) and buried (in the garden of the familial house).  

Valentina Alvarado Matos is a Venezuelan artist whose practice involves collage, film, and sculpture. In her films, the combination of manual actions carried out in front of the camera and poetic associations between words and images produce a reflection on the representation of landscape and memory. The films presented here combine play and correspondences of images with processes referring in turn to notions of diaspora, language, and ecology.

SCRATCH PROJECTION / January 16th, 8:30pm, Luminor Hotel de Ville Paris
Guest program by Mark Toscano, in his presence

This program focuses on five American artists who developed eclectic practices devoted to abstraction, inspired by diverse references including hard-edge abstract painting, cellular formations, optical/neural connections, and Islamic geometrical patterns.